The setting sun produced a shadow gram on the blind that interested me. The grain of the wooden floor, the near vertical lines of the blinds, the chrome of the much copied Fritz Hansen chair, all came together in a quiet glance of angles and texture. The lady said are you one of these people that constantly looks at your phone? No I said there are qualities in the light shape and forms that interest me. As I look at the light this irrepressible force makes me concentrate on what is before me no matter how simplistic or mundane. I have to record the composition with camera or much less often now a pencil and sketchbook. Its the way I am and have always been. I think she understood but I felt there were doubts…

If anyone tries to convince another that total knee replacements are painless its an absolute lie it hurts like hell I’m doing the exercises and tonight I walked a km. The twenty something physio said the more exercise you do the less pain you will have thats a lie to, besides what the heck would she know! Rant over…

Olympus E-M1 OMD ƒ5.6 1/30s ISO320. Lumix 25mm
The last rays of sun squeezing through the trees. Its all down hill to summer, the days will start getting longer and the end of day walk will start later, but its still going to get colder for a few months at least.

Couldn’t resist this title for these wonderful creatures that wake me up at five in the morning and scream at me before before supper. If I walk in the orchard at night these cockatoo’s let me know the don’t want me there. If really surprized they take all take flight once and drop a volley of gum nuts on the car or if in the wrong place on ones head …

Kings park is really quite unique among the worlds cities to have a native bushland park that over looks the whole CBD. It is possible indeed quite easy to walk from the city centre and be in dense bushland within twenty minutes. Other parts of the park are in the classic English parkland style while other areas are flower beds and specimen plantings of rare and endangered WA natives.